Less we forget: Retrieval cues and release from retrieval-induced forgetting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1236-1245

  Jonker, Tanya R ^a   Seli, Paul ^a   MacLeod, Colin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interference inhibition in memory retrieval; Memory; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870500077     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0224-2     Document Type: Article

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